The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-25
LATER NEWS

LATER figures give hart, hepuDllcaD
candidate for State Treasurer OF Pernsyl
vania, plurality Of A, SSS votes.
A. S. HATCH & Co, a wel-known New
York firm of brokers who have been operat-
bsng on the bear side of the market, got
caught in the recent rise of stocks and have
been forced to suspend. The liabilities are
about $3.50, 900.
A RAILROAD depot and extensive car stables
in Brooklyn have been destroyed by fire.
About $50 horses were burned 10 death To
tai estimated loss, 100000
JOHN ARENsDORF, the wealthy brewer, Is
to be tried the second time at Sioux City,
Iowa, for the murder of Rev. George c.
Haddock, prominent Prohibitionist-
Investigation showed that Anarchist Lingg
killed himself with a dynamite bomb and not
a Illuminating cap. Fielder and Schwab,
whose death sentence was committed, have
been placed at work in their life prison at
Joliet. III.
FIVE laborers were killed in a freight train
collision, at Averill, Mimi.
STEPHEN H. CULVER (colored) and two of
his children, one an infant and the other a
boy of nineteen, persisted by the burning OF
his house near Severn, Md, His wife and
two children escaped
THE Lighthouse Boards estimates of appro-
priation needed for the lighthouse establish
ments of the United States during the next
fiscal year aggregate 81, 1880
DURING the past fiscal year 81 ,0O2 claims
against the Government were passed upon, ag-
gregating s16S, AGA, 773.
MANY Department officials are busy with
their annual reports.
NJ nTC1I Of obi haS Ia
despatch to the President. saying that he
would accept the Post Office portfolio
if the Senate would unanimously confirm
him, otherwise he would not.
THE Ministry of Agriculture Building in
Brussels, the Belgian Capital, has been
burned. The loss IS heavy.
MOST of the many prisoners arrested for
participating in the riot in Trafalgar Square,
London escaped with fine, but some were
sentenced to four and six months imprison-
ment
ADvICEs from Panama say that the out
loook for the Panama Canal is gloomy.
More than S16O, 600 have already been
expended on this great work, and 5000, OOO,-
900 additional will be needed for its compile
pletion There are Il, 900 men employed.
SENATOR JOSEPH r. HAwLEY, of Connecti-
cut, was married few days ago in Phila-
delphia to Miss Edith Horner, of England,
who has been for several years one of the
head nurses at the Blockley Hospital in the
Quaker City
WITH only a single dissenting voice the
members of Plymouth Church. Brooklyn,
have extended call to the Rev. Charles A
Berry, of Northampton, England, to take
the place of the late Henry Ward Beeeher.
THE annual dinner of the New York Cham
Der Of Commerce brought together notable
assemblage of prominent business men.
Among the speakers were Secretary Lamar,
Chauncey NJ. Depew, Mayor Hewitt, and
Right Hon Joseph Chamberlin, of England.
A letter of regret from President Cleveland,
was also read.
THE strike of the II 900 miners in the
Lehigh coal region reached crisis few days
since The company declared that if the men
would not work they must vacate the houses.
The company owns 400 houses there.
CHARLES CANOvAN, a stalwart young New
York porter, was bitten on October by a
dog. A few days since symptoms of hydro
phobia appeared, and after suffering horri-
bly, for forty eight hours he died.
A FINNISH workman at the Wickes tunnel
shot and killed John Ed and John
Linburg and then shot himself through the
heart.
ELIZA RANDALL, a interchangeable col
ored girl of Quitman County, Ga, killed her
father wi tn an ak, because he forbade her 60
ing out after dark.
A BOYS lighted cigarette caused a fire at
Little Rock, Ark, which destroyed property,
including large amount of cotton, valued at
$780,, 900. I
THE richest gold mine in the world is re-
ported to have been discovered near Pres
colt, Arizona.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS resigna- |
ton has been placed in the Presidents hands |
A DINNER to Mr.. Blaine was given in Paris /
a few days since by DR.. and Mrs. T. w. |
Evans. Fifteen people, including Unite !
States Minisi er McLane, participated After
he dinner there was a reception.
THE G0UNTRYJS CROPS.